1/72 Bandai TIE Fighter

[Seamus]

Afternoon all,

As a massive Star Wars fan, and having been firmly caught up in all the hype of The Force Awakens, I just had to get involved in building some of the fantastic Bandai kits. My first venture into this area has been the 1/72 TIE Fighter. A joy to build from start to finish, and completed in a little over a week- must be my quickest build since I was a child! I've finished it as a TIE from a New Hope in the lighter grey, for which I used Xtracolor ADC Grey. Maybe not a 100% match, but it looks close enough to my eye. Details were picked out in various other greys before a dark grey pastel wash wash applied to pop out all that lovely detail. I wasn't too keen on the section od Death Star Bandai provide as a base, so made my own at work using Di-Bond, acrylic sandwiched between two veneers of painted aluminium, into which I laser engraved the Imperial logo. A short length of 3mm acrylic rod provides the mount, a bit floppy, but it does the job. All in all, this has been just about the most fun I've had building a kit in a long time

Bandai 1/72 TIE Fighter by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Bandai 1/72 TIE Fighter by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Bandai 1/72 TIE Fighter by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Bandai 1/72 TIE Fighter by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Bandai 1/72 TIE Fighter by Shaun Schofield, on Flickr

Thanks for looking, comments welcomed

Shaun

[colin]

very nice and the base sets it off great, think you could have a market for that base if you wanted to sell them.

So long as Disney don't find out

These kits really are a joy to make, everything just fits perfect and the detail they have is brilliant.Got a few to do Boba Fett/Slave 1/Falcon /C-3PO of which the gold plating is a work of art.

If you a have a modelling block with what you do, get one of these kits and the fun of building will come back in bundles

[Andy Moore]

Excellent build, and the base really sets it off

Andy

[Seamus]

Thanks both, much appreciated. I was hoping the base would create some interest as I would indeed like to sell a few to those interested. These are fully customisable- I can engrave pretty much anything given the right art work onto any shape and size* base- and am fully open to enquiries

*there is a limit, but it would be well beyond the size required for a model in most cases.

[Hunter Rose]

Great work, and yeah love that base Seamus

[PhantomMajor]

You've done an excellent job there, I really like the new base you made it too!

I have a mate who made me something similar for my "Iron Sky" Nazi moon soldier